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Title: Further Foolishness

Author: Stephen Leacock

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Further Foolishness
Sketches and Satires on The Follies of The Day


by Stephen Leacock




Preface

Many years ago when I was a boy at school, we had over
our class an ancient and spectacled schoolmaster who was
as kind at heart as he was ferocious in appearance, and
whose memory has suggested to me the title of this book.

It was his practice, on any outburst of gaiety in the
class-room, to chase us to our seats with a bamboo cane
and to shout at us in defiance:

_Now, then, any further foolishness?_

I find by experience that there are quite a number of
indulgent readers who are good enough to adopt the same
expectant attitude towards me now.

STEPHEN LEACOCK
McGILL UNIVERSITY
MONTREAL
November 1, 1916




Contents

FOLLIES IN FICTION

I. Stories Shorter Still

II. The Snoopopaths; or Fifty Stories in One

III. Foreign Fiction in Imported Instalments. Serge the
Superman: A Russian Novel. (Translated, with a
hand pump, out of the original Russian)

MOVIES AND MOTORS, MEN AND WOMEN

IV. Madeline of the Movies: A Photoplay done back
into Words

V. The Call of the Carburettor; or, Mr. Blinks and
his Friends

VI. The Two Sexes, in Fives or Sixes
A Dinner-party Study

VII. The Grass Bachelor's Guide With Sincere Apologies
to the Ladies' Periodicals

VIII. Every Man and his friends. Mr. Crunch's P

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